The
Degen Lab

Christian Degen

Principal investigator

Email: degen@mit.edu
Phone: 617-452-3882

Christian Degen, born 1976 in Zurich, Switzerland, received a diploma
in physics from the ETH Zurich
in
2001 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the same institution. His
doctorate, carried out under the advisement of Prof. Beat
H. Meier, included the
development of solid-state NMR spectroscopy
and its application to study fundamental phenomena in spin physics. In
2006 he then joined the team of Dan
Rugar at the IBM Almaden
Research Center working on ultrasensitive force detection
and nanoscale MRI imaging.

In September of 2009, Christian Degen was appointed tenure track
assistant
professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He is currently setting up a lab that will apply
ultrasensitive magnetic resonance techniques to solve problems in areas
ranging from structural biology to the fundamental physic of spins at
the nanometer scale.